Awards & Affiliations
Recognition
Aviva Rahmani has worked tirelessly to answer, “How we can save the environment from destruction at the hands of humankind?” Over the years, her accomplishments have earned her many awards and accolades. She has received grants from organizations interested in an array of related topics, including architecture, design, conservation and the environment.
2020 MAP Fund Grant
From the Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, NY
2019 - 2020 LMCC Artist Residency
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) at LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, NY
2018 Arts & Humanities Grant
From the Maine Humanities Council (Portland, ME) in partnership with the Maine Arts Commission (Augusta, ME)
2017 ABOG Fellow for Contemplative Practice
(Inaugural) in partnership with the Hemera Foundation, (for work on Blued Trees), A Blade of Grass (ABOG) foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - 2019 Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice and Outreach Fund of the Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist
For Blued Trees (renewed 3 years following initial award, maximum offered), New York, NY
2016 NYFA Fellowship (Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design)
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2015 NEA Ecology Residency
ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - present Affiliate with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
At the University of Colorado Boulder, CO
2010 - present NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
“An artist, composer, author—she’s a polymath whose accomplishments just leave me in awe.”
— Robert Shane, Art Historian and Critic